US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Always-on display signal generator" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,520, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Always-on display signal generator" was invented by Peter F Holland (Los Gatos, Calif.), Christopher P Tann (San Jose, Calif.) and Ramana V Rachakonda (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to c...